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砂岩油藏高含水后期微观剩余油启动力学机制研究

REMOBILIZATION MECHANISM OF MICROSCOPIC RESIDUAL OIL IN SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS AT THE HIGH WATER-CUT STAGE

  • 摘要: 随着我国东部老油区普遍进入高含水及特高含水阶段,水驱开发后期剩余油的高效精细挖潜是稳产提采的关键。由于微观剩余油高度分散,驱替动力与阻力机制尚未完全明确,复杂孔隙结构中剩余油的高效动用策略缺乏经济有效的方案,导致开发过程耗水量高、驱替效率低等问题。为揭示非连续状微观剩余油的形成机理及启动力学机制,本文结合流体体积法和毛管力滤波法构建了适用于高含水后期非均质砂岩油藏油水两相孔隙尺度流动模拟模型,定量揭示了建立孔隙拓扑参数(配位数、孔喉比)与剩余油形态的定量映射关系;突破砂岩均质润湿假设局限,阐明了基于原位润湿角的非均质孔隙-非均质润湿对剩余油分布的耦合作用机制;从力学角度系统解析了不同类型剩余油的微观启动条件与驱替动力学机理。结果表明,微观剩余油的连续性与孔隙结构非均质性强相关,配位数较小的孔隙区域易形成网络状剩余油,单孔状剩余油则受孔隙平均孔喉比控制,连通性好的孔隙为后续水驱的潜力突破区。非均质润湿分布会引起毛管力的波动,减弱毛管力的动力作用,导致高含水阶段提前。高含水期非连续剩余油簇之间压力传导失效,毛管力作用方向反转,成为主要阻力。网络状、多孔状剩余油易动用、受边界条件影响较大,油簇断裂、运移过程中的粘性耗散是主要阻力,提升水驱动力可推动相界面移动,与毛管力耦合形成有效驱替合力,实现网络状和多孔状剩余油的高效动用。高含水阶段单孔状剩余油分为驱动压力差控制型和切向粘滞力控制型,改善润湿角、界面张力是进一步采出单孔状剩余油的关键。研究成果可为水驱油藏的后期开发措施调整和方案设计提供理论依据。

     

    Abstract: As many of China's oil fields have entered a high-water and ultra-high water stage, the high-efficiency and precise remobilization of residual oil is currently the key difficulty in stabilizing production and increasing recovery in these mature oil fields. Due to the highly dispersed residual oil clusters, the trapping and mobilization mechanism is not fully understood and there is a lack of effective displacement of the discontinuous residual oil in the complex pore structure, resulting in high water consumption and low oil recovery. To reveal the formation and remobilization mechanisms of discontinuous microscopic residual oil, this study constructs a pore-scale oil-water two-phase flow simulation model combining the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method with capillary pressure filtering method, which is suitable for heterogeneous sandstone reservoirs in the late high water-cut stage. This model quantitatively reveals the quantitative relationship between pore topological parameters (coordination number, pore-throat ratio) and residual oil morphology. Breaking through the limitations of the homogeneous wetting assumption in sandstone, the coupling mechanisms between heterogeneous pores and heterogeneous wettability (based on in-situ contact angle) on residual oil distribution were investigated. The microscopic remobilization condition and displacement dynamics for different types of residual oil were systematically analyzed from a mechanical perspective. The results show that the continuity of the residual oil is influenced by pore structure heterogeneity. The pores with lower coordination number prefer to form network oil clusters, and the singlet oil bubbles is controlled by the average pore-throat ratio. Pores with good connectivity are the potential breakthrough positions for oil phase. The heterogeneous wettability will cause fluctuation and weakening of capillary force, leading to the advancement of high water-cut stage. At this point, pressure transport between the discontinuous residual oil clusters is invalid. The direction of the capillary forces then reverses and becomes the main resistance. The residual oil of network and multiple form affected by the boundary conditions is easy to be utilized. The enhanced driving force, coupled with the capillary force, can move the phase interface again, to overcome the viscous dissipation during the disconnection and transportation process, and to remobilize the network and multiple residual oil clusters. At the high water-cut stage, singlet oil can be divided into driving force control and tangential viscous force control, reducing the interfacial tension is the key to further recover singlet bubbles. This study provides a theoretical basis for adjusting the late-stage development measures and program design of water-flooding reservoirs.

     

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